Not just yet...
So, I was planning to talk about my latest deconversion, but the wound is still pretty raw. Maybe it will be better in a few days. In lieu of that, take a look at the The Common Sense Bill of Non-Rights, attributed to U.S. politician Mitchell Aye from Georgia. (For those of you outside the U.S., this is a spoof of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights.) I just received this in an e-mail from a friend.
There are a zillion things I disagree with, but the last article takes the cake:
ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!!!!
This country was founded on the belief in one true God.
So, so, so untrue. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Paine, and many of the other Founding Fathers were Deists or Athiests. Jefferson even took it upon himself to rewrite the Bible because he disliked it. Many church leaders wrote sermons and pamphlets decrying their leadership because of their lack of Godliness.
The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history...
In the 1950's, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy scared many Americans with an imagined Communist threat. In addition to "blackballing" many Americans, effectively ending their careers, he equated Communism and athiesm. As a result of his efforts, "In God We Trust" was placed on all U.S. coins, and "under God" was added after "one nation" in the Pledge of Allegiance. If anyone changed the U.S. history and heritage, it was McCarthyism.
This willful ignorance on the part of the American people stupefies and scares me. How can thinking people fight these misconceptions without making people of faith think we're agents of Satan?
There are a zillion things I disagree with, but the last article takes the cake:
ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!!!!
This country was founded on the belief in one true God.
So, so, so untrue. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Paine, and many of the other Founding Fathers were Deists or Athiests. Jefferson even took it upon himself to rewrite the Bible because he disliked it. Many church leaders wrote sermons and pamphlets decrying their leadership because of their lack of Godliness.
The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history...
In the 1950's, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy scared many Americans with an imagined Communist threat. In addition to "blackballing" many Americans, effectively ending their careers, he equated Communism and athiesm. As a result of his efforts, "In God We Trust" was placed on all U.S. coins, and "under God" was added after "one nation" in the Pledge of Allegiance. If anyone changed the U.S. history and heritage, it was McCarthyism.
This willful ignorance on the part of the American people stupefies and scares me. How can thinking people fight these misconceptions without making people of faith think we're agents of Satan?
posted by SuperSkeptic at 11:27 PM
1 Comments:
good point. I'm told that the pastor of one of the more influential churches in my city has been preaching this falsehood, and I wondered if I shouldn't go educate him. But like you say, I won't be welcome as an agent of satan.
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